The Story and Music of INVISIBLE CITIES

Composer and librettist Christopher Cerrone and director Yuval Sharon re-tell the story of Calvino's great novel INVISIBLE CITIES.
October - November, 2013
Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
Concept and direction: Yuval Sharon
Music and libretto: Christopher Cerrone
Conductor: Marc Lowenstein
Choreography: Danielle Agami and the L.A. Dance Project
Invisible Cities, set in LA’s historic Union Station, allowed the audience to roam freely through an operating train station, pursuing individual characters or creating their own story. The audience experienced the live performance via Sennheiser wireless headphones surrounded by the uninterrupted life of the station.
Based on Italo Calvino’s beloved novel, Invisible Cities is hauntingly adapted by composer Christopher Cerrone as a seventy-minute meditation on urban life, memory, and human connection. Cerrone’s fragile, quiet score attempts to capture “decaying sounds” through the use of found objects such as instruments and pre-recorded voices interweaving with live voices. For the world premiere, director Yuval Sharon immersed audiences in an unpredictable platform of everyday life, creating an “invisible” production that made each audience member the protagonist of the experience. With performers appearing and disappearing into the everyday fabric of the building, Sharon and choreographer Danielle Agami draw the audience into an uncannily intimate proximity to LA Dance Project and the singing ensemble.

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Is there a video of the opera anywhere?